Truth is always new and wild as the wild air, and is alive.
“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals 1820-1836
“Every sentence has meaning, not as being the natural means by which a physical faculty is realized, but, as we have said, by convention. Yet every sentence is not a proposition; only such are propositions as have in them either truth or falsity. Thus a prayer is a sentence, but is neither true nor false.”
—Aristotle, On Interpretation
Just as Instagram makes bad photos look good and good photos look great, Facebook makes you look happy and loved if you’re not, and joyous and adored if you are. Self-brand and share. Filter, and share. Share the edited stuff, the varnished stuff, the stuff with the halo around it. Take a step away from truth for the sake of beauty.
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“Movement (for which in a petty way logic is taken), the so-called search for truth and beauty, is for us the effect of breakdown of the attention. [Movement] … must always be consideredaimless,without progress… . The whole of writing is an alertness not to let go of a possibility of movement in our fearful bedazzlement with some concrete and fixed present. The goal is to keep a beleaguered line of understanding which has movement from breaking down and becoming a hole into which we sink decoratively to rest.”
—William Carlos Williams in “The Work of Gertrude Stein” (1931)
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star…
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“So it is with simulation, insofar as it is opposed to representation. The latter starts from the principle that the sign and the real are equivalent (even if this equivalence is utopian, it is a fundamental axiom). Conversely, simulation starts from the utopia of this principle of equivalence, from the radical negation of the sign as value, from the sign as reversion and death sentence of every reference. Whereas representation tries to absorb simulation by interpreting it as false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation as itself a simulacrum.
This would be the successive phases of the image:
-it is the reflection of a basic reality
-it masks and perverts a basic reality
-it masks the absence of a basic reality
-it bears no relation to any reality whatever: it is its own pure simulacrum.”
—Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, 1981
“There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities.”
—Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you
is that a fact or a weapon?
Margaret Atwood
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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